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Promise Pegasus Raid

Promise Pegasus Raid

After announcing their intention back in February 2011 of releasing Thunderbolt enabled products, Promise have now launched a number of Thunderbolt hard drive devices.

The Promise Pegasus Raid R4 and R6 boast I/O rates of over 800 MB/s. They are the first High Performance Hardware RAID solutions available with Thunderbolt ports. Each has two high performance bi-directional Thunderbolt ports capable of transferring data at 10Gbps.

The Promise Pegasus is ready to use as soon as you take it out the box. Just plug in the power, connect the Thunderbolt cable and away you go.

The Thunderbolt cable is not supplied with the Pegasus unfortunately.

They are available from Amazon

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Promise Pegasus will only work on the 2011 MacBook Pro or 2011 iMac. This is because they are the only two products currently available that have an integrated Thunderbolt controller. A controller is required in order to encode and decode the transferred data.

The Promise SANlink adapter has two Thunderbolt ports. The low latency, dual-channel nature of Thunderbolt allows you to daisy chain additional peripherals without compromising the performance of the Fibre Channel connection.

Now with a SANlink adapter you can connect an iMac to a xSAN network allowing you to quickly access shared resources stored on the xSAN.